In these nine essays Vilhelm Moberg blends history with poetic license to create an America viewed by a Swedish emigrant in the middle of the 20th century.Roger McKnight’s translation of The Unknown Swedes is the first English-language book to reveal Moberg’s views on emigration; America; and Sweden. In the 1950 edition of The Unknown Swedes; Moberg was guardedly optimistic about the United States. In 1968 Moberg; distraught at America’s involvement in the Vietnam War; appended the chapter "Twenty Years Later" to the new edition of The Unknown Swedes. This essay attacks "vulgar patriotism" in America.
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